BJP president Amit Shah appeared as a defence witness in a riot case in which his party leader Maya Kodnani is an accused. Shah told a Gujarat court that he had seen Kodnani in the state assembly and then at Ahmedabad`s Sola Civil Hospital on the morning of February 28, 2002.

Kodnani is accused of murdering 11 Muslims on February 28, 2002, Naroda Gam, Ahmedabad suburb.

Maya Kodnani, who was a legislator at that time, has pleaded in court that she was not in Naroda Gam at the time of the killings. She has told court she was in the state assembly that morning and then at the Sola Civil Hospital, where Amit Shah, who was a Gujarat legislator too then, was present. She had sought that Mr Shah testify to help prove her alibi.

The BJP president was in court for about an hour and answered over 40 questions from lawyers. Asked whether he knew where Maya Kodnani was between the time that he saw her at the assembly and in the hospital, Mr Shah said he did not know. He also said he did not know where she went from the hospital.

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